Liliana Porter Argentinian , b. 1941
Untitled (hand with paper), 1973
photo etching and collage on paper
plate 11 3/4 x 12 inches/29.8 x 30.5 cm
sheet 26 x 24 inches/66 x 61 cm
sheet 26 x 24 inches/66 x 61 cm
numbered '16/30' and with the blindstamp of New York Graphic Workshop (one of only a handful of prints that were realized from an originally intended edition of 30)
Further images
“I perceived the photograph as the most objective kind of image possible, an instrument that allowed me to appropriate objects from reality (for example, a nail) and then print them...
“I perceived the photograph as the most objective kind of image possible, an instrument that allowed me to appropriate objects from reality (for example, a nail) and then print them on a wall; or I could put situations together, take a photograph of them, and insert the photograph into a print. It was a time in which photography was still quite separate from the other visual arts. And so I used it as a vehicle for displacing images into and between my pieces.”
—Liliana Porter, from "Liliana Porter in Conversation with Inés Katzenstein," 2013 (New York: Fundación Cisneros), p. 66.
—Liliana Porter, from "Liliana Porter in Conversation with Inés Katzenstein," 2013 (New York: Fundación Cisneros), p. 66.